Word: recessions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disaster. . . . Such a merger is not a good thing for the Central." Did W. F. Place, Central's vice president in charge of finance, think the marriage would improve Central's credit standing? Said he tersely: "No." Young's flustered counsel hastily asked for a recess. At week's end, as ICC took the case under advisement, Bob Young was still ruffled over his would-be bride's skittishness. Said he: "It was certainly most unbecoming, under the circumstances...
With Congress in recess and President Truman a sure thing for the Democratic nomination in 1948, the nation's cartoonists turned their pens on the nation's best political show-the scramble for the Republican nomination. Convention time was still ten months off. But in country clubs and barrooms, from picnic grounds and hotel rooms, the hum of politicking rose above the land as candidates angled for delegates...
Although entries is the University championship tennis tournament were originally slated to close today with the first round of play starting tomorrow, in all likelihood the slats will have to be kept open until next Monday, when the Business School returns from a week-long recess...
Waiting for the Senate's weekend recess, newsmen heard a crackling noise from the main corridor of the Senate wing. The old English Minton floor tiles, laid in the 1850s and now irreplaceable, had begun to heave upward. They buckled into a ridge 20 feet long. Capitol architects guessed the cause was a sudden change of temperature. Reporters happily accepted the theory that someone had opened a door from the Senate chamber and let out a blast...
Late in March, the kids began toting their marbles to school in Roanoke, Va. At recess, there were shrill cries of "knuckle-down tight" and "whoa marble," as the boys plunked nibs out of a 10ft. ring. The game was strictly for keeps, and towheaded, ten-year-old Larry Vinson (known around school as "Big Lick") suffered the penalty of being too good. He complained: "I broke every kid in school . . . can't get anybody to play with me any more...